The policy affects individuals, including violent offenders, whom the U.S. cannot return to their home countries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a divided ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to resume deportations of migrants to third countries, reversing a lower court’s order that allowed such migrants to challenge their removal.
The unsigned emergency decision, supported by the court’s conservative majority, drew a sharp dissent from liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “The government… feels itself unconstrained by law,” she wrote, warning the ruling exposes migrants to “torture or death.”
The policy affects individuals, including violent offenders, whom the U.S. cannot return to their home countries.
A May deportation flight to South Sudan was diverted to Djibouti after District Judge Brian Murphy ruled deportees must have a chance to argue danger.
Civil rights groups condemned the decision. Trina Realmuto of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance called it “horrifying.”
The Department of Homeland Security praised the ruling as a “MAJOR win.”
Legal challenges continue, with concerns mounting over human rights risks and the erosion of due process.